Michael de la Force
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A Chouteau Centennial Initiative - 2007/11/17 18:55
A Centennial Initiative: After standing on the corner and watching downtown Chouteau burn many years ago and asking my grandfather who retired after about forty-years from Public Service
(Mayes County)and serving on the voluntary fire department in Chouteau, he said about an electric heater in the old apartment buildings. Many of the old photos of before exist..
Here is the initiative, Redevelop the downtown in a style similar to what it was with loft-style living. and adding a high- tech infrastructure. Work with the Amish/Menonite community, the Cherokee Nation, the farmers and the techies. These distinctive groups have been around some for considerably more than a hundred years even before Jean- Pierre came from France and named the place. Today, most want to create opportunities and share in a homeland they are all native to. They have in common talents as artists and craftsmanship that is incomparable and not usual to find in a common ground. With Google (tm) coming to the industrial park people will be looking for alternative housing (build it and they will come).
The Amish/Menonite, farm, technology and Cherokee communities in a Co-op style could promote tourism to travel agencies. Chouteau and Mayes County from Mazie going North could be a travel destination if properly promoted. Furthermore, you have great resources for quality food and dairy at a farmers market perhaps not unlike the quality and kind service that the Kroeker family offered on the corner there for many generations. Instead of gaming you might contact the Cherokee Nation for an Art Market, they have many- many talented world renowned artists that could contribute to a museum/ gallery space. In community development, It seems other than infrastructure you might also want to consider education. In a recent meeting with the President of the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) he was telling me about a branding campaign and their expansion into other markets in states and countries. If you could have a branch of a school of that magnitude you would not only do good for growth but be providing a great service for the next generation! If someone wants to contact him I can assist or do it on your own. Hopefully, you see the positive in this and it works for those of you if you who are interested. I will never ask for anything in return except an invitation to a nice old-time holiday parade in many years to come. Hopefully, you in Chouteau will be the first and the best in your neck of the woods to do something like this and leave the rest in your dust. You have every reason to succeed including close proximity to the airport as it goes.
Good Luck!
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